DX11: 3DMark11

FutureMark 3DMark11 is the latest addition the 3DMark benchmark series built by FutureMark corporation. 3DMark11 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX-11 graphics card performance without vendor preference. Although 3DMark11 includes the unbiased Bullet Open Source Physics Library instead of NVIDIA PhysX for the CPU/Physics tests, Benchmark Reviews concentrates on the four graphics-only tests in 3DMark11 and uses them with medium-level 'Performance' presets.

The 'Performance' level setting applies 1x multi-sample anti-aliasing and trilinear texture filtering to a 1280x720p resolution. The tessellation detail, when called upon by a test, is preset to level 5, with a maximum tessellation factor of 10. The shadow map size is limited to 5 and the shadow cascade count is set to 4, while the surface shadow sample count is at the maximum value of 16. Ambient occlusion is enabled, and preset to a quality level of 5.

@benchmarkreviews teamThe graph representation you are using looks ugly and are difficult to read. It's bit confusing to read the graph, for instance I read the figure on bar, ok, but what is that figure for? I have refer the bottom of graph again to find what card it is for.Maybe I am over-reacting, but it can be much simpler.

What's not nice? Olin and I are both making factual comments here. Unless I've said something mean, I see nothing here that would cause me to think anything otherwise. It's good someone pointed out the graphs could be more clear. I think the reason no one has is that it is true, they are a little hard too read, and also that it's not a deal breaker. So no one said anything.

I have always found the graphs used by benchmark reviews to be hard to read the problem is matching colors from the key to the graph, it's often hard to determine the dark colors from one another in particular when they add more cards to the mix.

After reading the comments first, I was intrigued to see the graphs.I can't say I remember taking notice of them if ever the times I have read any review.And I think they are fine, even the color coded part. I can understand the color brown and grayish black were a bit difficult to discern, but once I got they are in order on both top and bottom, it wasn't too challenging.Bottom line: Graphs nice and clear.One mans opinion.